Common Startup Ideas

3 years ago

A free library of “crowd sourced” electronics repair instructions, with a database of more than 100,000 step-by-step guides for common problems with over a million unique parts.

715

3 years ago

A startup that creates online courses that teach people how to do common home repairs

565

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help people get money from friends and family. The company uses a paper check system that’s more commonly used in developing countries, and it plans to roll it out in the US, Canada, and Europe. They recently raised $1.5M in a seed round.

257

2 years ago

A startup that lets you track your mileage on a car, bike, or moped. It’s like a mileage tracker but for the world’s most commonly owned modes of transportation.

173

2 years ago

One of the most common complaints about shopping carts is that it’s hard to compare prices. 3D Cart hopes to help with that by showing the prices from the retailer’s site directly on the cart page.

172

3 years ago

A digital wallet that’s designed to serve the needs of women in China. Currently, the platform does not offer features that are common in the US, such as peer-to-peer payments, a feature that is required in China for transactions to be legal.

157

3 years ago

A startup that wants to put a common API between many banks and start to allow consumers to take debit card payments anywhere.

154

3 years ago

A startup that is building an AI-based system that predicts how a person will perform at a job, based on common traits.

143

3 years ago

A company that helps software engineers gather data from the Internet of Things and bring it in a common format, allowing them to better understand what their end-users are doing.

142

3 years ago

A chatbot that answers questions and handles customer service calls, using language processing to help users avoid common mistakes.

137

3 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to make a website load faster, by picking up on the most common web performance problems and offering solutions.

136

11 months ago

A portable diagnostic tool for children to run noninvasive tests. A startup that helps parents test their kids for common problems before they go to the doctor. The startup is working on a lower-cost version of its product that can be used at home.

133

3 years ago

A company that helps developers use machine learning to help turn apps that are live right now into future-proofed and useful apps. The company’s software is meant to help developers avoid common pitfalls when building apps, like forgetting to correctly define dates and times.

132

1 year ago

A digital voice assistant, or digital assistant, that can be used by anyone to enter tasks, appointments and a slew of other information. A digital assistant is a common consumer feature on many of the most popular smart speakers today.

123

1 year ago

A platform for maintaining a database of information about the world’s languages, the language you’re speaking, where you learned it, and so on. The startup aims to create a common repository of knowledge across the W3 community.

121

3 years ago

It’s a subscription service for most common household cleaning needs.

120

3 years ago

A startup that helps with matchmaking, the startup says it sifts through users’ Instagram photos, looking for common themes. It then uses machine learning to analyze what it’s seen and suggest new friends.

119

2 years ago

A messaging app that uses AI and machine learning to automatically generate text. After generating a list of the most common questions and phrases that people send, customer support can use this tool to pre-write responses.

118

3 years ago

It’s not uncommon for someone to wake up with a hangover, but it’s often a hassle to find something to drink that doesn’t taste gross. The startup wants to make sure there is always a drinkable alternative to the morning-after-party staple, water.

117

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make healthcare more accessible by building an artificial intelligence platform that can diagnose and manage symptoms of common ailments

117

1 year ago

A way for people to communicate and work together on files, even if they don’t have a common team.

116

3 years ago

App that helps teachers find and collaborate on common content. The company’s technology works with Google Docs to organize a shared content space and show when content has changed. The product serves over 2,000 schools.

114

2 years ago

The top 10 list of the most common ideas was based on the number of pitches submitted by companies.

110

2 years ago

An API for the U.K.’s government’s Open Data platform, which is released under a Creative Commons license. It allows users to interface with the data in a variety of ways, including filtering by utility.

103

2 years ago

A startup that helps doctors and patients find common ground, reducing the stress involved in insurance and billing questions.

98

2 years ago

A way to track and communicate with homeowner associations that manage common areas like pool, parking and landscaping. The startup has raised $40,000 in seed funding from angel investors.

92

2 years ago

A group of startups that wants to build a more flexible alternative to the more common SaaS model. The startups want to build tools that let people customize their solutions into “custom apps” that can be sold to customers directly.

85

2 years ago

A company that is working on a peer-to-peer lending marketplace platform that connects lenders with borrowers. CommonBond has raised $30 million to date.

84

1 year ago

A publisher of educational videos on topics like “how to become a leader”, “how to solve common problems”, and “how to be confident”. The startup is building a video library that can be rented for $50 or subscribed to per month.

83

2 years ago

The other factor is the service-based nature of B2B companies. B2B companies typically spend on services, such as accounting or legal services. The most common B2B service businesses include accounting, banking, and legal services. B2B marketing startups are therefore more likely to be targeting B2

82

7 months ago

A startup that’s building an app to make it easy to find and connect with like-minded people. It also wants to make it easy to find and connect with people who share common interests. It’s currently working with more than 1,000 businesses and is on track to get its 1 million users in 2017.

80

7 months ago

A way to streamline and automate common tasks like:

79

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies with talent acquisition and retention. The company employs a “holistic” approach to recruiting and retention, with tools for companies to evaluate candidates, share a common language and culture, and establish a graduated hierarchy for managers.

76

1 year ago

A company that builds a personal and professional portable credit score for people who have an unsecured credit card (UCC) and don’t have the equipment to install a credit card reader. For the most unsecured credit card holders, commonly known as under-banked, the company will build a simple and secure online credit application.

74

1 year ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

74

1 year ago

Shares a lot of common DNA with the other startups above, but it’s a payments startup focused on medical expenses.

72

3 months ago

A startup that helps companies manage expenses by automating common tasks related to accounting, finance, and payroll.

72

1 year ago

A company that sets up a meeting with a group of people who might have similar interests, similar values and similar goals, to help them find common ground.

70

8 months ago

A startup that makes it easy for restaurants to accept online orders. They, like many other startups, are trying to tackle an all-too-common issue in the digital space: how to make online ordering a seamless experience for customers.

70

1 year ago

An online platform that connects companies with a shared mission, where they can pool funds, create a common goal, and help each other. Startup is based in Silicon Valley and has launched in San Francisco.

68

1 year ago

A company that helps employees and businesses connect their payroll systems through a common API.

68

1 year ago

A startup-based system to create, share, and discover content, letting people license their creations for commercial use. Based on the use of the open-source Creative Commons licenses.

66

8 months ago

This startup is building a “utility-style” credit score, combining three common traditional credit scores into one. It’s meant to be a “definitive score” that’s transparent, easy to understand and is suitable for non-traditional credit.

65

1 year ago

A tool for companies to build more efficient internal communication, involving messaging, spreadsheet automation, and scheduling. It’s the first product from the team more commonly known for their work on the cloud-based calendar startup, Meeting.ly.

64

1 year ago

A startup targeting medical professionals with a solution to a common problem: managing the vast amounts of clinical data patients generate.

62

1 month ago

A platform that allows people with common interests to find others and organize themselves into groups.

61

1 year ago

A social startup that aims to connect people through their passions, passions that other people have in common.

60

1 year ago

A B2B startup that wants to make a “common operating system” for workflows. It wants to make tasks like HR administration and invoicing simple and easy.

59

1 year ago

A new hardware platform for the Internet of Things that lets hardware be built with a common set of APIs. The hardware itself is open source, and the company will work with developers to make the hardware work with other software.

59

1 year ago

A new way to manage and share information on software development. Envato is building a common development platform that allows teams to share and collaborate with ease.

59

1 month ago

A company that wants to build a community for people with common interests in things like the arts, sports and DIY projects.

58

1 year ago

Filmmakers want to keep track of their own costs while they’re making a movie. They wanted a way to track what they’re spending on equipment and how long things take. They also wanted to be able to follow their work in real time. They’re both very common problems, and the startup helps solve them.

56

1 year ago

An online network that connects tech companies with non-tech companies for common projects. It also charges for consulting services for projects. The startup is backed by Benchmark.

55

5 months ago

This startup aims to help customer service reps build a database of common customer issues, so they can better serve their customers.

54

1 year ago

The company wants to help companies get started with process automation by packaging enterprise software with a bunch of pre-configured templates for common processes.

53

1 year ago

Watermark uses a blockchain to create a digital workbook that can be shared with others and edited, allowing them to collaborate. It’s a solution for the “shared task” problem, where work has to be done in common but can’t be shared.

52

9 months ago

A B2B software company that helps advance teams and businesses in the construction industry. The startup sells software that tracks and preempts the construction industry’s most common delays.

52

7 months ago

A startup that helps small businesses in China pay suppliers and employees. The idea is to help local shops avoid the 2-3 week delays that are common.

52

1 year ago

A product that helps doctors write prescriptions digitally and seamlessly. The startup is building a digital platform that lets doctors manage the flow of prescriptions, including those for controlled substances, pain management, and common prescriptions.

51

10 months ago

A startup that allows users to search through a database of common information like addresses and phone numbers.

51

6 months ago

A startup that’s developing a platform for organizations to build their own CRM products on top of a common set of data.

51

6 months ago

It's a platform that allows people to create community profiles and make it easy to find other people with common interests.

49

1 year ago

A platform that allows lawyers to search and manage their client’s documents, allowing them to collaborate and organize client files on a common platform.

48

11 months ago

An online quiz that coaches people on how to fix common email issues, like how to read email on your phone

48

6 months ago

A startup that has grown from the common ground between computer science and the arts. Their goal is to create a more efficient way to create, remix, and share art.

47

1 year ago

A platform that provides a library of content-rich “hacks” which include the best answers to the most common questions on Quora

46

7 months ago

A company that makes a fertilizer for indoor plants. The company’s founders say that the product was designed specifically to save plants from the toxic chemicals in common houseplants, without over-stimulating them.

46

1 month ago

A startup that allows users to create and manage a team around a common interest. Users can create teams, view them and their progress, and communicate with team members.

45

1 year ago

A platform that helps people get paid for taking photos of food, which is a common use case for many businesses.

43

1 year ago

A travel booking tool for a common customer request: when to leave for a vacation. It’s “a future travel booking system that inspires the customer to travel”.

42

6 months ago

The Digital Philadelphia program is sponsored by the Philadelphia Department of Commerce and Economic Development and supported by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of the Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Academy of Comic Art, and the University of Pennsylvania.

42

11 months ago

A platform that turns your smartphone's microphone into a recording device. The startup hopes to remove the hassle of recording audio, which they say is the most common use case for the app.

38

6 months ago

Social selling is a very common term in sales and marketing circles. This startup’s goal is to help companies develop a pipeline of sales reps.

38

5 months ago

The founders of this company want to build a common platform for all of the communication tools that people use for their company. They’re working on making Huddle, Slack, HipChat, and other tools work together.

35

11 months ago

In terms of what these startups are trying to accomplish, they all have slightly different goals, but they are all trying to solve the same problem. What they have in common is they are building solutions that are focused around simplifying the experience of managing data, both of the data and the tools used to manage it.

34

9 days ago

A platform for sharing common files, owned by a content management company.

31

3 months ago

A startup that lets users automate many of their most common tasks, like paying bills and managing their finances.

26

5 months ago

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

24

2 months ago

Finding out what crimes are most common in a neighborhood, so that police can more effectively target and investigate them.

21

10 days ago

A startup that is building an AI-based system that automatically detects and reverses “missteps” on an investment portfolio. They say the startup is able to detect and correct for a handful of common mistakes 80% of the time, and that it doesn’t require any human involvement.

16

3 months ago

The startup wants to make it easier for employees to do common tasks with their computers, from sending documents to tracking their travel. It collaborates with businesses to build their own solution within the company.

15

3 years ago

Idea: A platform that helps people discover, share and find a mentor or a group of people with common interests, which helps people find jobs.

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3 years ago

A startup that creates a new type of credit card that solves a common problem

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Common Startup Ideas

A free library of “crowd sourced” electronics repair instructions, with a database of more than 100,000 step-by-step guides for common problems with over a million unique parts.

A startup that creates online courses that teach people how to do common home repairs

This startup is building a platform to help people get money from friends and family. The company uses a paper check system that’s more commonly used in developing countries, and it plans to roll it out in the US, Canada, and Europe. They recently raised $1.5M in a seed round.

A startup that lets you track your mileage on a car, bike, or moped. It’s like a mileage tracker but for the world’s most commonly owned modes of transportation.

One of the most common complaints about shopping carts is that it’s hard to compare prices. 3D Cart hopes to help with that by showing the prices from the retailer’s site directly on the cart page.

A digital wallet that’s designed to serve the needs of women in China. Currently, the platform does not offer features that are common in the US, such as peer-to-peer payments, a feature that is required in China for transactions to be legal.

A startup that wants to put a common API between many banks and start to allow consumers to take debit card payments anywhere.

A startup that is building an AI-based system that predicts how a person will perform at a job, based on common traits.

A company that helps software engineers gather data from the Internet of Things and bring it in a common format, allowing them to better understand what their end-users are doing.

A chatbot that answers questions and handles customer service calls, using language processing to help users avoid common mistakes.

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to make a website load faster, by picking up on the most common web performance problems and offering solutions.

A portable diagnostic tool for children to run noninvasive tests. A startup that helps parents test their kids for common problems before they go to the doctor. The startup is working on a lower-cost version of its product that can be used at home.

A company that helps developers use machine learning to help turn apps that are live right now into future-proofed and useful apps. The company’s software is meant to help developers avoid common pitfalls when building apps, like forgetting to correctly define dates and times.

A digital voice assistant, or digital assistant, that can be used by anyone to enter tasks, appointments and a slew of other information. A digital assistant is a common consumer feature on many of the most popular smart speakers today.

A platform for maintaining a database of information about the world’s languages, the language you’re speaking, where you learned it, and so on. The startup aims to create a common repository of knowledge across the W3 community.

It’s a subscription service for most common household cleaning needs.

A startup that helps with matchmaking, the startup says it sifts through users’ Instagram photos, looking for common themes. It then uses machine learning to analyze what it’s seen and suggest new friends.

A messaging app that uses AI and machine learning to automatically generate text. After generating a list of the most common questions and phrases that people send, customer support can use this tool to pre-write responses.

It’s not uncommon for someone to wake up with a hangover, but it’s often a hassle to find something to drink that doesn’t taste gross. The startup wants to make sure there is always a drinkable alternative to the morning-after-party staple, water.

A startup that wants to make healthcare more accessible by building an artificial intelligence platform that can diagnose and manage symptoms of common ailments

A way for people to communicate and work together on files, even if they don’t have a common team.

App that helps teachers find and collaborate on common content. The company’s technology works with Google Docs to organize a shared content space and show when content has changed. The product serves over 2,000 schools.

The top 10 list of the most common ideas was based on the number of pitches submitted by companies.

An API for the U.K.’s government’s Open Data platform, which is released under a Creative Commons license. It allows users to interface with the data in a variety of ways, including filtering by utility.

A startup that helps doctors and patients find common ground, reducing the stress involved in insurance and billing questions.

A way to track and communicate with homeowner associations that manage common areas like pool, parking and landscaping. The startup has raised $40,000 in seed funding from angel investors.

A group of startups that wants to build a more flexible alternative to the more common SaaS model. The startups want to build tools that let people customize their solutions into “custom apps” that can be sold to customers directly.

A company that is working on a peer-to-peer lending marketplace platform that connects lenders with borrowers. CommonBond has raised $30 million to date.

A publisher of educational videos on topics like “how to become a leader”, “how to solve common problems”, and “how to be confident”. The startup is building a video library that can be rented for $50 or subscribed to per month.

The other factor is the service-based nature of B2B companies. B2B companies typically spend on services, such as accounting or legal services. The most common B2B service businesses include accounting, banking, and legal services. B2B marketing startups are therefore more likely to be targeting B2

A startup that’s building an app to make it easy to find and connect with like-minded people. It also wants to make it easy to find and connect with people who share common interests. It’s currently working with more than 1,000 businesses and is on track to get its 1 million users in 2017.

A way to streamline and automate common tasks like:

A startup that helps companies with talent acquisition and retention. The company employs a “holistic” approach to recruiting and retention, with tools for companies to evaluate candidates, share a common language and culture, and establish a graduated hierarchy for managers.

Shares a lot of common DNA with the other startups above, but it’s a payments startup focused on medical expenses.

A startup that helps companies manage expenses by automating common tasks related to accounting, finance, and payroll.

A company that sets up a meeting with a group of people who might have similar interests, similar values and similar goals, to help them find common ground.

A startup that makes it easy for restaurants to accept online orders. They, like many other startups, are trying to tackle an all-too-common issue in the digital space: how to make online ordering a seamless experience for customers.

An online platform that connects companies with a shared mission, where they can pool funds, create a common goal, and help each other. Startup is based in Silicon Valley and has launched in San Francisco.

A company that helps employees and businesses connect their payroll systems through a common API.

A startup-based system to create, share, and discover content, letting people license their creations for commercial use. Based on the use of the open-source Creative Commons licenses.

This startup is building a “utility-style” credit score, combining three common traditional credit scores into one. It’s meant to be a “definitive score” that’s transparent, easy to understand and is suitable for non-traditional credit.

A tool for companies to build more efficient internal communication, involving messaging, spreadsheet automation, and scheduling. It’s the first product from the team more commonly known for their work on the cloud-based calendar startup, Meeting.ly.

A startup targeting medical professionals with a solution to a common problem: managing the vast amounts of clinical data patients generate.

A platform that allows people with common interests to find others and organize themselves into groups.

A social startup that aims to connect people through their passions, passions that other people have in common.

A B2B startup that wants to make a “common operating system” for workflows. It wants to make tasks like HR administration and invoicing simple and easy.

A new hardware platform for the Internet of Things that lets hardware be built with a common set of APIs. The hardware itself is open source, and the company will work with developers to make the hardware work with other software.

A new way to manage and share information on software development. Envato is building a common development platform that allows teams to share and collaborate with ease.

A company that wants to build a community for people with common interests in things like the arts, sports and DIY projects.

An online network that connects tech companies with non-tech companies for common projects. It also charges for consulting services for projects. The startup is backed by Benchmark.

This startup aims to help customer service reps build a database of common customer issues, so they can better serve their customers.

The company wants to help companies get started with process automation by packaging enterprise software with a bunch of pre-configured templates for common processes.

Watermark uses a blockchain to create a digital workbook that can be shared with others and edited, allowing them to collaborate. It’s a solution for the “shared task” problem, where work has to be done in common but can’t be shared.

A B2B software company that helps advance teams and businesses in the construction industry. The startup sells software that tracks and preempts the construction industry’s most common delays.

A startup that helps small businesses in China pay suppliers and employees. The idea is to help local shops avoid the 2-3 week delays that are common.

A product that helps doctors write prescriptions digitally and seamlessly. The startup is building a digital platform that lets doctors manage the flow of prescriptions, including those for controlled substances, pain management, and common prescriptions.

A startup that allows users to search through a database of common information like addresses and phone numbers.

A startup that’s developing a platform for organizations to build their own CRM products on top of a common set of data.

It's a platform that allows people to create community profiles and make it easy to find other people with common interests.

A platform that allows lawyers to search and manage their client’s documents, allowing them to collaborate and organize client files on a common platform.

An online quiz that coaches people on how to fix common email issues, like how to read email on your phone

A startup that has grown from the common ground between computer science and the arts. Their goal is to create a more efficient way to create, remix, and share art.

A platform that provides a library of content-rich “hacks” which include the best answers to the most common questions on Quora

A company that makes a fertilizer for indoor plants. The company’s founders say that the product was designed specifically to save plants from the toxic chemicals in common houseplants, without over-stimulating them.

A startup that allows users to create and manage a team around a common interest. Users can create teams, view them and their progress, and communicate with team members.

A platform that helps people get paid for taking photos of food, which is a common use case for many businesses.

A travel booking tool for a common customer request: when to leave for a vacation. It’s “a future travel booking system that inspires the customer to travel”.

A platform that turns your smartphone's microphone into a recording device. The startup hopes to remove the hassle of recording audio, which they say is the most common use case for the app.

Social selling is a very common term in sales and marketing circles. This startup’s goal is to help companies develop a pipeline of sales reps.

The founders of this company want to build a common platform for all of the communication tools that people use for their company. They’re working on making Huddle, Slack, HipChat, and other tools work together.

A platform for sharing common files, owned by a content management company.

A startup that lets users automate many of their most common tasks, like paying bills and managing their finances.

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

Finding out what crimes are most common in a neighborhood, so that police can more effectively target and investigate them.

A startup that is building an AI-based system that automatically detects and reverses “missteps” on an investment portfolio. They say the startup is able to detect and correct for a handful of common mistakes 80% of the time, and that it doesn’t require any human involvement.

The startup wants to make it easier for employees to do common tasks with their computers, from sending documents to tracking their travel. It collaborates with businesses to build their own solution within the company.

Idea: A platform that helps people discover, share and find a mentor or a group of people with common interests, which helps people find jobs.